Secular Option May Not Be So Foreign after All

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I AM ONE of those people who believe that Canada's emergence as a secular state is a gift from God, yet to be acknowledged by our churches, and certainly not identified as such by fundamentalist liberals. What better time to think about this gift than during the Easter season? Two facts confront us. Without the resurrection there is no Christianity, and secondly, it is through the resurrection that Christians are called to a life with unlimited horizons, beyond the boundaries set by worldly aspirations and institutions.

It is in this context that I find Lamin Sanneh's Whose Religion Is Christianity?--The Gospel beyond the West, an exciting read. His penetrating historical and …